The Laconia Daily Sun media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Laconia Daily Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Laconia Daily Sun biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Laconia Daily Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Laconia Daily Sun left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Laconia Daily Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Laconia Daily Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Laconia Daily Sun are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Laconia Daily Sun has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Laconia Daily Sun’s own report linked underneath.
A major scientific report indicates Greenland and Antarctica have lost between 11.3 and 12.5 trillion tons of ice since 1979. This loss has contributed to a global sea level rise of approximately 3 to 3.14 centimeters, primarily driven by accelerated glacier flow into the ocean.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asGreenland and Antartica lost staggering amount of ice last 50 years (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
A study examining UK medical records found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, was associated with a nearly 40% reduction in asthma attacks and a 20% decrease in COPD flare-ups. Scientists suggest anti-inflammatory properties may be responsible, but caution that further trials are needed.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asStudy finds weight loss drugs linked to 40% drop in asthma attacks (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
A U.S.-backed company, North American Blue Energy Partners, is set to take over oilfields in Venezuela previously operated by Chinese and Russian firms. The deal grants the U.S. government a significant stake and preferential access to production.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asUnited States Government and North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) Reach Historic Deal to Develop Venezuela's Oil Sector (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
Bearded capuchin monkeys hunt small animals like lizards and rodents when plant foods are scarce, according to a study published in PLOS One. Male monkeys hunt more frequently and target more dangerous prey than females, and both sexes prefer the fat-rich brains and guts of their prey.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asMonkeys hunt animals like lizards and snakes when fruit scarce (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
A major review of 80 randomized controlled trials found that nicotine e-cigarettes were more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for helping people quit smoking. The review involved nearly 30,000 participants and found no evidence of increased serious harm from using e-cigarettes to quit.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asDoes vaping help smokers quit more than gums and patches? (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on 18 August 2026 imposing new restrictions on data center development, including local approval requirements and removal from fast-track permitting. The move reverses his earlier support for such projects and follows bipartisan opposition to their environmental and energy impacts.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asShapiro signs data center order barring fast-track permitting, NDAs (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
Andy Green, the only person to break the sound barrier in a car, set a new land speed record of 406.320 mph in a hydrogen-powered vehicle at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The JCB Hydromax, using modified construction engines, surpassed the previous hydrogen record by over 200 mph.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asHydrogen-powered car sets new world land speed record (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
Stacker compiled rankings of the hottest Augusts in Missouri and six other U.S. states using federal climate data. The 1936 August in Missouri averaged 83.9°F, the highest since records began in 1895. Outlets across the political spectrum published the findings, with varying emphasis on climate trends.
The Laconia Daily Sun reported it asHottest Augusts in New Hampshire since 1895 (opens The Laconia Daily Sun in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Laconia Daily Sun.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- laconiadailysun.com
- Seen publishing on
- laconiadailysun.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen The Laconia Daily Sun cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Laconia Daily Sun: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Laconia Daily Sun, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Laconia Daily Sun publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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